Muse sounds interesting. "Laurie (ukonline)" wrote:
> Don Parrish-Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> had a wish-list. > Here's how Muse shapes up (no, it's not 100%, though if I were a beginner > user I might think it was until I discovered the fine details). > > > 1. Enter guitar TAB, tool creates sheet music and TAB as you go. > Yes > > >2. Ability to add lyrics and guitar chords (text and chart format) and/or > > text notes to the score > Lyrics, yes, > Guitar chords yes but only text format, > Text notes yes > and you can have any or all of these at once. > > >3. Ability to strip out just lyrics or lyrics and guitar chords from an > > existing tune (the tune could have been written in whatever > > format is native to the tool) > You can get just the ly-rics eas-i-ly e-nough to paste them in-to a word > pro-ces-sor but they will still contain hy-phen-a-tion to show how they are > split a-cross the notes if you see what I mean. > > >4. Enter sheet music, tool attempts to create guitar TAB (obviously > >you'll need to do some touch ups here and there to make it actually > > playable) > Yes, and then having fixed the odd note here and there you can tell it to > have another go at the generation, interpolating between your fixed points - > so that when you tell it to play some note on fret 12 it will realise that > your wrist is a long way from the nut and not put the next or previous note > on fret 3. That way you only need to touch up the odd note and the rest > falls into place. > > > 5. MIDI IN/OUT (pretty standard feature, from what I see) > MIDI files either way, yes > Live MIDI out, yes > Live MIDI in - no (because the results are not very good - just too much > post-editing until/unless I get the tempo following right). > > > 6. Actually knows what the heck a repeat is!! A lot of things I've > > tried ignore the repeats. > If you mean detecting repeat in MIDI in, even from a MIDI file, this is > tricky. If you mean output then yes, of course, with variant endings if > need be. > > > 7. Doesn't require taking out a second mortgage on your house to buy it! > Not many banks are interested in £20 (about $30 US) mortgages > > >8. Has some keyboard-shortcut method of selecting note duration instead of > > having to always use the mouse. > Yes > > > 9. Outputs in abc, PDF, etc. format. > Will do abc, MIDI or its own format directly. > Will print on any printer that Windows supports. > With a little trickery using Windows it will do PostScript. > Not PDF directly. > Doesn't do etc. format at all. > Not that! That spoils everything LOL Don To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
